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9/11The English language : a linguistic history
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xx, 522 pages : 23 cm
"Rooted in formal linguistics and designed for students with no background in languages or linguistics this text is ideal for full- and half-year courses in the history of the English language."--Jacket
Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-516) and index
Studying the history of English -- The sounds and writing of English -- Causes and mechanisms of language change -- The Indo-European language family and Proto-Indo-European -- Germanic and the development of Old English -- The sounds and words of Old English -- The grammar of Old English -- The rise of Middle English: words and sounds -- The grammar of Middle English and rise of a written standard -- The sounds and inflections of early modern English -- Early modern English verbal constructions and eighteenth-century prescriptivism -- Modern English
"Rooted in formal linguistics and designed for students with no background in languages or linguistics this text is ideal for full- and half-year courses in the history of the English language."--Jacket
Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-516) and index
Studying the history of English -- The sounds and writing of English -- Causes and mechanisms of language change -- The Indo-European language family and Proto-Indo-European -- Germanic and the development of Old English -- The sounds and words of Old English -- The grammar of Old English -- The rise of Middle English: words and sounds -- The grammar of Middle English and rise of a written standard -- The sounds and inflections of early modern English -- Early modern English verbal constructions and eighteenth-century prescriptivism -- Modern English
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